Tag: Kyler Zeleny

Kyler Zeleny: Bury Me in the Back 40 – LENSCRATCH

Kyler Zeleny: Bury Me in the Back 40 – LENSCRATCH

Kyler Zeleny has a particular way of seeing the world, or more specifically, seeing the Canadian prairie, that is both historical and theatrical, cinematic and apocalyptic. When combined, the results are riveting. His newest book effort is the the final chapter in his prairie trilogy. Bury Me in the Back Forty, published by The Velvet

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Kyler Zeleny has a particular way of seeing the world, or more specifically, seeing the Canadian prairie, that is both historical and theatrical, cinematic and apocalyptic. When combined, the results are riveting. His newest book effort is the the final chapter in his prairie trilogy. Bury Me in the Back Forty, published by The Velvet Cell, is the successor to the sold-out books “Out West” and “Crown Ditch”. His unique approach to combing text and image, vintage and contemporary photographs and ephemera, oral histories and community records, make Bury Me in the Back Forty a rich narrative of prairie life.

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September 15, 2024
Kyler Zeleny: Crown Ditch and the Prairie Castle | LENSCRATCH

Kyler Zeleny: Crown Ditch and the Prairie Castle

Projects featured this week were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview each of these individuals to gain further insight into the bodies of work they shared. Today, we are looking at the series Crown Ditch and the Pra

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Projects featured this week were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview each of these individuals to gain further insight into the bodies of work they shared. Today, we are looking at the series Crown Ditch and the Prairie Castle by Kyler Zeleny.

February 24, 2020
This man collected 6,000 orphaned Polaroids. See what he’s doing to tell their stories. – The Washington Post

Perspective | This man collected 6,000 orphaned Polaroids. See what he’s doing to tell their stories.

Kyler Zeleny has collected more than 6,000 Polaroids. He couldn’t find who they belonged to so he set out to give them life by asking creative minds to write stories about them.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2018/02/05/this-man-collected-6000-orphaned-polaroids-see-what-hes-doing-to-tell-their-stories/

There is no mistaking the iconic white border and unique square shape of a Polaroid photograph. The gratification we enjoy today of seeing our photos instantly on our smartphones echoes the Polaroid experience of wildly shaking the image as chemicals slowly revealed the photograph before our eyes. Polaroids, most popular in the 1970s and 1980s, changed the way we thought about photography and made it easier than ever to take pictures. Over the last several years, Kyler Zeleny, a Canadian photographer-researcher and author, has collected lost Polaroid photographs. Inspired by his interest in photography and his love for the rich history within his own family photo albums, he started collecting Polaroids around 2011 from thrifts shops, estate sales and eventually on eBay. “What intrigued me about found images, found Polaroids in particular, was the disconnect between the visual evidence that they existed without knowing who these people were, what they have done, who they had wronged, or who they had loved. I was interested in knowing who these people were. I continued to ask myself, ‘who would abandon family photographs?’” Zeleny said.

February 5, 2018